Read it through once

When I was a child, I remember my nurse's telling me that I could already read in English, and had learned to spell and write pretty well. My education began with the grammar-school; from thence I was sent to Catharine-hall in Cambridge; my name is entered in the books of that society; but having had no strong bent either to voyage or travel, I stayed there but a short time, and my father, finding no inclination in me to barbarous employments, placed me with a man of trade, who had a shop at Yarmouth.